Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-10-28
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CITY AND VICINITY.

day to escort to the House of Correction
Frank Morrow of Wnooski who was con
victed of larceny and intoXication.
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There was heavy snow storm raging
on Mount Mansfield Tuesday. The top
of the mountain is now well covered by the
snow which extends down into the notch.
The coal business is booming, and our
local dealers are finding it difficult to pro-
cure sufficient number of cars to handle
the amount called for the neighboring
towns.
Mr. Luther Whitney of Keeseville, who
has considerable to do with boating inter
ests in this city, has recently purchased
the ferry boat Cornella for $500, formerly
owned by Capt. j. Walker.
Officer Beaupre Wednesday arrested a
tramp who is wanted in Nergennes for
stealing clothing ana the tin pals contain
ing the dinners of railroad employees. He
will have a hearing in Vergennes.
The executive committee and officers of
the State teachers association at their
meeting in this city decided to hold the
next annual meeting the last week in Jan
uary, the place to be decided upon later.
Mr. Fred Beebe, who is now in town,
says that the Memphremagog House
where he was clerk the past season, is to
be sold by the railroad, now that the new
management of the Boston and Lowell
has come into possession.
The wind blew Monday one of the hard
est gales of the year. The Williams was
unable to make the morning trip from
Plattsburgh and was little late in the
afternoon owing to the high waves which
were rolling.
Keeseville lodge, No. S. l. O. o. F.,
have made arrangements with the How
ard Opera House orchestra of this city to
give a grand musical concert in Kings
land opera house, Aeesevilie, on Thanks
giving night.
After the completion of the railroad
bridge at Hartford work on the Clark
bridge between Richmond and Wllliston
will be pushed, with view of getting
the structure as nearly finished as posi-
BILE before January.
The State grand lodge of Odd Fellows
will meet the Re5ekah lodges at Brattle-
boro November 0. Dennis lodge will eX-
emplify the degree on the following day,
and Wantastiquet lodge will eXemplify
the initiatory and second degree for the
benefit of the visitors.
w. H. Lane, jr., is making elaborate
preparations for ice boating the coming
winter. He has had his ice yacht
Brownie" repainted throughout, has put
in a new mast and is making some radi-
cal changes i'll her rigging and equipment
which will add materially to her speed.
Business men along the Burlington and
Lamoille and the Vermont division of the
Boston and Lowell roads are complaining
greatly of the defective mail service over
the latter road and several complaints
have been recently made to the postotlice
department, concerning the inefficient ser
vice.
The man arrested in the act of
driving another mans team out of the
city Monday while intoxicated was ar
raigned in City Court Tuesday. He gave
his name as James Wilson of Williston,
but it is thought to be Sullivan. He re-
liquor aud was remauded.
The fair of St. Mays congregation
which has been in progress over two
weeks closed Tuesday. The cane con
test, which has been a prominent feature
of the fair, was decided in favor of Rev.
p. j. Barrett, president of the C.. Y. NJ. T.,
the vote standing S2l6 in his favor with
$3.50 to the credit of Very Rev. Father
Lynch Coacnman Charles Walch, who
handles the reins for Dr. Webb, won the
whip.
1t is now quite certain that Mead, Ma
son & Co., formerly of Lebanon, n. H.,
will occupy the shops of the Walker 81
Hatch Manufacturing company at Wi
nooski. They offered to 90 there if $500
were raised, and that sum has already been
subscribed. They will commence work as
soon as possible, and will employ during
the winter about $50 men. In the spring
this number will be increased to 400.
The FREE PRESS has just made popu-
lar sensation in reducing the price of its
weekly edition to one dollar year This
is the greatest reduction on record.
Judging by comparison the Weekly FREE
PRESS was cheap at 81. co. but now that it
is sold for half the old rate there is no eX-
cuse for any family in Northern Vernon
being without its weekly visits.
l.. S. Drew's three-year-old Hambleton-
ian colt while running in the pasture Fri
day ran a stub into her groin and through
the tleshy part of the ham SO that the end
could be felt through the skin outside,
u Miller was summoned and by cutting
and probing he was able to remove the
stub which was found to be nine inches
long and an inch and half in diameter.
The colt is now doing well with every
prospect of recovery.
Nearly 100 members of Green Mountain
and Hamilton Lodges, /. O. O. f., with
full regalia, attended in a body the me-
mortal services in the Methodist church